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My laptop's wifi driver suddenly started crashing and generally not working. A reboot did not fix.
A system upgrade fixed it. Good thing I always carry around a recovery flash drive in my wallet.
@icedquinn The keyword is old.
This wifi adapter is so new that many distros such as Ubuntu don't support it yet. Kernels 5.2 and up.
@fred i meant more that macOS devices don't have problems like linux ones do.
@icedquinn fair point, but you might still find this Intel adapter (AX200) in Macbooks sometime.
@fred as much as big tech sucks, i can count the number of times i needed to boot a restore distro to fix trivial peripheral errors on my old macbook on zero hands